Archive for April, 2017

The following is not a conspiracy theory, but a possibility as in geopolitics seldom things are clear as they seem.

The North Korean issue has been long boiling and going unscathed through a lot of US Presidents. North Korea shelled a South Korean island, sank a South Korea military vessell with almost 50 sailors lost and nothing happened. The first nuclear test was in 2006.

Now we are at the verge of a military conflict on nothing.

Why? The normal reasons you can read it on BBC. The second normal reason is that the North Korean in maximum 3 years will have ICBM missiles that can hit the US mainland.

There is also an alternative reason. China now is for real becoming a strategic threat to the US. Building island in the Pacific, but also in the Atlantic (more commercial apparently , Cabo Verde) and the new Chinese Silk Road.

A conflict in North Korea could have several disruptive issues for China.

The authority started a serious clampdown addressing regulation in the banking, insurance and securities systems and clampdown in off-balance sheet risks (shadow lending, contagion risk and entrusted investment).

This is a very positive outcome as it is a stepping stone for the China mainland to be included in the World indexes and open to foreigners in general.

It is quite a few weeks that I am looking in who is the real Macron, as I suspected that he was an elite puppet created to create havoc in the populist European movement – a more sophisticated version of what happened with Syriza-Greece.

Now finally I found what it seems to be close to the truth. He has been created by the best (or worst) bankers in the world – so that the banks can continue to have their way.

The first 100 days of President Trump have passed and presented quite a few kept promises on the internal matters (job creation etc) and a few back flip on international issues (Middle East, Russia and China). President Trump showed that is a negotiating President

But mainly the market went up on a good economy and expectations.

The next 100 days will be the test to see if the promises are real or not.

Tomorrow there will be its tax reform – probably will be liked by the market…and bogged down in Congress. And the 28th the US Debt Ceiling.

On trade he will have a bit more success (steel, aluminium, semiconductors, shipbuilding, NAFTA, South Korea FTA, EU, China). There are several blocks, but they can be overturned with the “national interest clause”. But the clause notion in this case would have to be expanded and give phenomenal overriding powers to President Trump in lat of matters. Hopefully it will be just a negotiating tactic and not the start of a real trade war.

In North Korea President Trump got himself into trouble. He cannot back down, nor Kim Yong Un who, in three years, will have real ICBM missiles that can hit the US. A non solution scenario.

In Syria, President Trump is toying with the idea of boots on the ground

In Iran President Trump hardline risks to make win an hardliner in the next Iranian election (19 May). A too strong position against Iran can create another North Korea situation.

In Russia is all back to Obama-Clinton plus the Russian probe. Attrition will continue in Ukraine, Syria and it is rising also in ex-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and North Korea.

The market cheers as Macron will probably defeat Le Pen in the second round.

Macron successfully represented himself as an outsider and, in a usual pattern, got endorsed by everyone (including some unions!) as in reality he is the shadow representative of the elites.

Most probably he will win in the second round. The one potential risk is that Assange of wikileaks has really a bomb like news. And that all the endorsements from the elites wakes up the electorate that Macron is the elite candidate.

But even in this positive scenario (Macron win) there are two outcomes.

The right (nationalistic) side never been so strong and Macron is the last chance of the elites

For the first time in France the old parties that dominated the political landscape are not even represented and this is a revolution in itself. Specially that in a socialist country as France there is no socialist party represented.

Meanwhile everybody is preparing for worst case scenario – world war 3.

US the Vincent aircraft carrier group is still heading slowly towards South Korea. As General McMaster is really smart I think the deviation is just a trick. Anyway other 2 carrier groups are heading there and 2 destroyers are in position and there are big exercises going on in South Korea (17,000 Americans and over 300,000 South Koreans).

China has alerted at least 150,000 soldiers and their aircraft bombers are in maximum alert.

Russia has at least 3 ships and several trains have been spotted going towards the North Korean front line.

Naturally everyone is saying they are military exercises. And nobody wants North Korea to fall to the US, by the way.